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Supply chains and prices under pressure: new laptop launches threatened with further delay

Leipzig, Germany, February 21st 2022 – China is reacting to new outbreaks of the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus with partial lockdowns. This could further delay the availability of laptops with 12th Gen Intel Core processors and NVIDIA’s Ti graphics cards, which debuted at the beginning of the year. The first factories have already been closed in Suzhou in the east of the country. Supply chain and


Valve implements new Steam store rules to limit ‘fake discount’ practises

Games will no longer be eligible for a discount for 28 days since the last price increase

Starting March 28, new rules will apply to Steam’s discounting system.

Valve is known for its consumer-friendly policy when it comes to software refunds. The company gives 2 weeks for a refund for any purchase that was made through the Steam platform, as long as it is not a DLC, an in-game purchase, or a renewable subscription. Furthermore, games that were played for more than 2 hours


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Jensen Huang not implementing any changes to NVIDIA’s strategy after failed ARM acquisition

With the ARM deal called off, NVIDIA CEO sees no reason to update the company’s roadmaps

In an interview with VentureBeat , NVIDIA CEO confirmed the company is not making any changes to its strategy after calling off the deal to buy ARM Limited.

Two weeks ago NVIDIA officially confirmed it will no longer pursue the acquisition of ARM Limited after ‘significant regulatory challenges’. NVIDIA has been in a tough spot ever since the deal was announced. A number of regulatory and anticompetitive bodies have expressed their concern about  NVIDIA’s


Intel 13th Gen Core Raptor Lake-S (desktop) processors rumored to launch in late Q3 2022

Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .

Intel Raptor Lake is rumored to launch by the end of September

Intel made a surprising showcase at Investor Meeting 2022 with a public demo of the 13th Gen Core CPU codenamed “Raptor Lake”. It was not only the first demonstration of the new CPU series but also the first time Intel confirmed it will offer twice as many Efficient cores as Alder Lake.

Intel has not said much about the new series performance though. The company did,

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AMD Radeon 680M RDNA iGPU outperforms GeForce MX450 discrete graphics

AMD RDNA2 iGPU shows its strength against NVIDIA low-power discrete solutions

A highly detailed review of AMD Ryzen 6000 APUs has been published on the Zhihu platform by an engineer working Lenovo Notebook Division in China. This review focuses on many aspects, such as APU power efficiency or its battery life. The most interesting part, however, covers the iGPU performance.

AMD Ryzen 6000 series features updated Zen3+ architecture on 6nm node, but the most important upgrade finally came to the graphics

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Flagship Intel Arc Alchemist desktop graphics card spotted with 2.4 GHz GPU clock

Intel Arc Alchemist might feature a high clock speed of 2.4 GHz

Intel Arc Alchemist has been spotted running 2400 MHz clock speed during the Geekbench OpenCL test.

The card which is supposedly running on on “Coffee Lake Client Platform” is most likely under testing at Intel’s or an undisclosed board partner’s labs. According to the data collected by Geekbench software, the system was equipped with a Core i9-9600K processor with 6 cores and 6 threads.

Intel Arc

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NVIDIA CMP 100HX crypto mining card spotted, features Volta GV100 GPU

NVIDIA CMP 100HX might feature a Volta GV100 processor

NVIDIA expanding its CryptoMining Processor series with Volta.

Poor Volta. It appears NVIDIA has decided to launch its compute accelerator for the crypto mining business as new photos emerge on PC_Shopping forums. The card allegedly features the same PCB layout as the Titan V, which was the only consumer model released with GV100 GPU with actual display outputs. The CMP 100HX, as it is called in the original report, does

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Intel NUC 12 Extreme “Dragon Canyon” to feature up to Core i9-12900 65W Alder Lake CPU

Intel NUC 12 Extreme “Dragon Canyon” gets official specs

We received the spec sheet for the upcoming Intel high-end Small Form Factor PC.

Intel wants to ‘scorch the competition” with its NUC 12 Extreme. This small desktop PC is a hybrid between a full-fledged desktop PC and a Mini-PC powered by the latest CPU. Intel NUC Extreme “Canyon” series combines a compact PCIe board with CPU, memory, and SSD with a full-sized discrete GPU.

The 12th

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Gigabyte unveils its first PCIe Gen5 power supply but doesn’t know what to call the new power cable

Gigabyte UD1000GM PG5 is the company’s first PCIe Gen5 compatible power supply

Another company unveils its PCIe Gen5 compatible power supply, but it is just another example of the confusion surrounding the new PCIe Gen5 power cable.

Gigabyte UDM1000GM PG5 is a 1000W power supply with 80+ Gold efficiency certification. It is a compact supply with full modular connectors. Among those connectors is the new power standard for next-gen GPUs.

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Sapphire GPRO X080 RDNA2 crypto mining card gets 40% cheaper in just one month

AMD RDNA2 crypto mining cards get cheaper

Sapphire’s GPRO X080 loses nearly 475 EUR in value in one month.

Back in November, Sapphire revealed its plans for a GPRO X080 mining card equipped with NAVI 22 GPU and 10GB of GDDR6 memory. If it wasn’t for El Chapuzas Informatico , we would have probably not even heard about this card, because graphics card makers are reluctant to advertise their mining equipment for a good reason – gamers hate to

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